Gallery
Art Plays Games
Explore a free exhibition dedicated to showcasing games created by digital artists and independent video game developers. From 5 September 2024 – 27 April 2025, FACT are transforming their first-floor gallery into a space for games created by digital artists and independent video game developers. Fun, playful and suitable for gamers and non-gamers of all...
A LUSH Liverpool Takeover with Blue Room and Friends
Blue Room is the Bluecoat’s inclusive arts project supporting learning disabled and neurodivergent artists to make and share work with audiences. Our takeover event celebrates two new festive gift design commissions with LUSH. Past collaborations with the ethical cosmetics company have brought the work of Blue Room artists to a global audience. From Sat 28...
Ignite: Understanding Arts Council Funding
Whether you’re an emerging artist looking for advice, established and wanting to try something new, or just interested in expanding your horizons and kickstarting creativity in your life, then come along to a free workshop and ignite that creative spark. Arts Council England champions, develops and invests in artistic and cultural experiences to enrich people’s...
Tess Gilmartin: Flowers in the Window
Stop by the LUSH Liverpool store to see the joyful work of Blue Room artist Tess Gilmartin. Gilmartin’s large scale mixed media piece Horse Big is the featured artwork for this year’s Lush advent calendar box. Earlier this year, the piece was shared as a billboard commission on the exterior of the Bluecoat building as...
Screening: Fantastic Planet (La Planète Sauvage), 1973
Join us for a captivating journey into the surreal world of Fantastic Planet (La Planète Sauvage), the critically acclaimed 1973 animated science fiction film directed by René Laloux. Known for its imaginative visuals and thought-provoking themes, Fantastic Planet has earned its place as a classic in animated cinema. Set on the distant planet Ygam, Fantastic...
The Flowers Still Grow
The Flowers Still Grow brings together a series of projects that showcase long-term collaborations between photographers, creative writers, and local communities in Anfield and Garston. Each project celebrates the people who make up these communities whilst reflecting their concerns, experiences, and aspirations of the society around them. People of Anfield and Childhood is a garden,...
BlackFest 2024
BlackFest is an award winning festival that boasts an inclusive programme celebrating theatre, film, spoken word, poetry, music, dance and visual arts, providing a safe space for experimentation, excellence and connection within arts. Our collaborations with artists, organisations and the community has encouraged the creation, appreciation and access to this celebrating and centring Black Arts...
Exhibition Preview: Through the Lens
Join us for the exclusive look at ‘Through the Lens’, a captivating exhibition that explores the world through the eyes of talented photographers. This special evening offers a first look at a stunning collection of images that capture experiences, evoke emotions, and showcase artistic creativity in interpreting the world around us. Hosted in the historic...
BlackFest 2024: Visual Arts Workshop – Kassessa Gandara
Join Kassessa Gandara a self-taught visual artist from Angola. He creates different concepts and translates them into different artistic expressions, through live events, stages, exhibitions, digital prints, sculpture and painted mediums. He will be sharing his practice part discussion led on your creative identity, processes in he diaspora, inspiration. With an arts workshop.
BlackFest 2024: Visual Arts Exhibition Programme Launch
Four visual artists will display their work on exhibition at the Smithdown social arts hub. Meet the line up: Cara Walker – A visual artist dedicated to cultural liberation and the advocacy of creativity, with a particular focus on amplifying the Black voice. Ridwa Horreh – An aspiring artist and PhD student passionately focused on...